Saturday, 26 March 2011
Hifz Female Teacher wanted
A sister is looking for (ideally) a hafiza that can listen/teach me hifz (if not, then an experienced sister who knows tajweed well and is able to do this for me). My email address is sadaf.batool@hotmail.com. Jazakallah Khair.
Cafe One Fundraiser For UWT this Sunday! Every penny goes to the flood victims of Pakistan!
Cafe One Fundraiser For UWT!
This Sunday from 11am to 11pm every penny from the sales at Cafe One will be donated to the Pakistan Flood Appeal!
Cafe One address: Cafe One, 169a Dunstable Road, Luton, LU1 1BW
Telephone: 01582 48 48 02
Please support the fundraiser by buying food this Sunday from Cafe One!
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Sisters' Space Editor's Interviw with Inspire FM
Sisters Space editor conducted an interview with Inspire FM in the Weekend Arts and culture show with its amazing host Shemiza Rashid.
7 DAY TOUR TO ANDALUCIA (Women Only)
"The World is a Book and Those who do not travel only read one page"
Don't miss out on an amazing opportunity and experience
7 DAY TOUR TO ANDALUCIA (Women Only)
EXPERIENCE MOORISH SPAIN
June 19th - 25th 2011
£495 (excluding flights)
The package includes:
* Accommodation for 2 nights in a private villa in the Al Pujarra Mountains with a private swimming pool and a barbecue. Bed and Breakfast
* Accommodation for 2 nights in Granada in a 4* hotel Bed and Breakfast
* Accommodation for 1 night in Cordoba in a 4* hotel Bed and Breakfast
* Accommodation for 1 night in Malaga in a 4* hotel Bed and Breakfast.
* Transport to and from all of the sites that you visit and to all of your hotels. All travellers will be picked up from the airport and dropped back off.
* Tour guide who will provide you with lectures and information on the history of all the places you will be visiting
*Entrance fees into all of the main sites:
As well as this you will be given the opportunity to interact and mingle with a new growing Muslim community in the Al Pujarra mountains and understand what it means to be a Muslim living in Spain today.
You will be given a guided tour of the Albaicin ( The Arab quarters) where you can visit the first mosque in Granada since the fall of the Muslims.
In addition to this we provide the option of one activity normally horse riding in the mountains but it is optional.
The tours are competitively priced and work out to an average of £70 a day. We are an established company and have been taking groups to Spain for 10 years.
Further information:
We always advise customers to not confuse a guided tour with a package holiday. The benefits of going on a guided tour is that it is aimed to be an educational experience and for people to gain the best out of their experience in Spain. With a guided tour you benefit from having a tour guide who can advise you on issues such as places to find halal food as well as other queries you may have. We advise people to do some reading on the history of Spain before they attend the tours.
NOTE: If you are interested in booking places on this tour we advise you to do asap as the female only tours fill up very quickly. Flights are not included in the package. Prices for flights go up closer to the time so to benefit from cheaper flights it is best if you book early. To book:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=169854069731791
For more information visit our website on
http://www.islamicspain.co.uk/
info@islamicspain.co.uk
07971 930655
Don't miss out on an amazing opportunity and experience
7 DAY TOUR TO ANDALUCIA (Women Only)
EXPERIENCE MOORISH SPAIN
June 19th - 25th 2011
£495 (excluding flights)
The package includes:
* Accommodation for 2 nights in a private villa in the Al Pujarra Mountains with a private swimming pool and a barbecue. Bed and Breakfast
* Accommodation for 2 nights in Granada in a 4* hotel Bed and Breakfast
* Accommodation for 1 night in Cordoba in a 4* hotel Bed and Breakfast
* Accommodation for 1 night in Malaga in a 4* hotel Bed and Breakfast.
* Transport to and from all of the sites that you visit and to all of your hotels. All travellers will be picked up from the airport and dropped back off.
* Tour guide who will provide you with lectures and information on the history of all the places you will be visiting
*Entrance fees into all of the main sites:
- The alhambra
- The mezquita in Cordoba
- Medinat Alzahra
- Calahorra tower and Museum
- Presentations in Granada and in Cordoba where you will be given the history and a breakdown of some of the major events in the history of Islamic Spain.
As well as this you will be given the opportunity to interact and mingle with a new growing Muslim community in the Al Pujarra mountains and understand what it means to be a Muslim living in Spain today.
You will be given a guided tour of the Albaicin ( The Arab quarters) where you can visit the first mosque in Granada since the fall of the Muslims.
In addition to this we provide the option of one activity normally horse riding in the mountains but it is optional.
The tours are competitively priced and work out to an average of £70 a day. We are an established company and have been taking groups to Spain for 10 years.
Further information:
We always advise customers to not confuse a guided tour with a package holiday. The benefits of going on a guided tour is that it is aimed to be an educational experience and for people to gain the best out of their experience in Spain. With a guided tour you benefit from having a tour guide who can advise you on issues such as places to find halal food as well as other queries you may have. We advise people to do some reading on the history of Spain before they attend the tours.
NOTE: If you are interested in booking places on this tour we advise you to do asap as the female only tours fill up very quickly. Flights are not included in the package. Prices for flights go up closer to the time so to benefit from cheaper flights it is best if you book early. To book:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=169854069731791
For more information visit our website on
http://www.islamicspain.co.uk/
info@islamicspain.co.uk
07971 930655
Islam Awareness Week
As part of Islam Awareness week we are raising money for keech hospice. The event is a fun day for families, we have face painting, henna, food, activities for children and some light entertainment.
The event inshallah is on Saturday the 2nd of April, St Georges Square (outside library), 10am-4pm. The aim of the event is to counteract the negative attention muslims have been getting so we show integration, community cohesion and that we muslims are making a positive contribution to our community (the opposite to what EDL says). It also a perfect dawah opportunity.
We are in desperate need of volunteers and really need people to come forward, we need volunteers for the following:
- FACE PAINTING
- HENNA PAINTING
- BLOWING UP BALLOONS
- ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN
- SELLING FOOD
DISTRIBUTING LEAFLETS (on sat 26th March & event day)
GENERAL DOMESTIC HELP
To volunteer for any of the above, please ring or email Rukhsana Majeed on 07968182630 or rukym@hotmail.com
DONATING FINGER FOODS
To make finger foods to sell on the day (bought or homemade), please ring 07723475604 or email suzan_arabi@hotmail.com
Food must be labelled with ingredients.
If you can't help then please donate money to help this cause.
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Is the luscious eyebrow the gateway to being a real woman?
It was the time for me to become a woman once again. A short but excruciating amount of pain would leave me radiant and glowing, assured of my truly feminine status. I was at the beauty salon to “have my eyebrows done”.
Why oh why do I do this to myself? It’s a strange form of addiction, exchanging pain to get the temporary high of “beauty”. The gorgeous arc of the eyebrow “opens up my eyes” and makes them sparkle, apparently. But eyebrow-shaping is also one of the worst forms of self-inflicted persecution I know.
The beautician (for which read “torturer”) summons me into her small room and beckons me to lie down on the narrow treatment bed. She tuts at the horror of my bushy brow overgrowth. To me, they still look presentable, but she informs me that they are unsuitable for public display.
She leans over my face, her ample bosom precariously close to my face, the smell of her perfumed uniform is at once comforting but also a signal of the pain I am about to endure. And yet here I am, month in month out.
I’ve bought into the notion, which the beauty industry has sold to me, that without pain there is no gain. But this industry is not only those nasty faceless conglomerates that churn out various white creams that will moisturise, nourish, cleanse, rejuvenate or anti-age me. It also includes well-meaning friends, mothers, bossy aunties and colleagues who advise on what it means to be womanly. And having perfectly shaped eyebrows is part of womanliness. It is you know, it really is.
“Can you hold here?” she dictates, drawing me in to participate in my own torment. I close my eyes, and use one of my hands to depress and gently pull down my eyelid while using my other hand to winch up the skin above the brow. With the eyebrow held taut she begins work to excavate my long-lost luscious brow. She has wound a piece of white cotton thread (it’s always white, I don’t know why) between her hands and her mouth. Holding it tight she pulls away lines of hair from above, below and between my brows. A thousand hairs are yanked without any ceremony from right above my eye, and tears start streaming down while I suppress a scream. Real women don’t scream when they are becoming woman-ified.
Sometimes, I wonder if men notice. Are you tuned in to the trouble that most of the women around you go to? The comedian George Carlin says: “Ladies, here’s how much men care about your eyebrows: Do you have two of them? Good, we’re done.”
I’m not going to go through this trauma without due recognition, however. I’ve trained my husband to notice when my eyes have gained their freedom from eyebrow overgrowth. If the compliment is not spontaneous, I stand directly in front of him in obvious anticipation.
But is it the male species that we do it for? I don’t think so. The shaped eyebrow confirms our eligibility into the “real woman” club, a small but effective signal that says: “I am a woman who cares about myself.”
If a woman doesn’t care about how she looks, then what kind of woman is she? I’d like to say I’m the kind of woman who hasn’t bought into the social pressure to conform to being what is considered a socially acceptable “real woman”.
But I have.
And after each torture session, I can’t help but admire my luscious curved brows and newly liberated sparkling eyes.
"Shelina Zahra Janmohamed is the author of Love in a Headscarf and writes a blog at spirit21.co.uk"
Why oh why do I do this to myself? It’s a strange form of addiction, exchanging pain to get the temporary high of “beauty”. The gorgeous arc of the eyebrow “opens up my eyes” and makes them sparkle, apparently. But eyebrow-shaping is also one of the worst forms of self-inflicted persecution I know.
The beautician (for which read “torturer”) summons me into her small room and beckons me to lie down on the narrow treatment bed. She tuts at the horror of my bushy brow overgrowth. To me, they still look presentable, but she informs me that they are unsuitable for public display.
She leans over my face, her ample bosom precariously close to my face, the smell of her perfumed uniform is at once comforting but also a signal of the pain I am about to endure. And yet here I am, month in month out.
I’ve bought into the notion, which the beauty industry has sold to me, that without pain there is no gain. But this industry is not only those nasty faceless conglomerates that churn out various white creams that will moisturise, nourish, cleanse, rejuvenate or anti-age me. It also includes well-meaning friends, mothers, bossy aunties and colleagues who advise on what it means to be womanly. And having perfectly shaped eyebrows is part of womanliness. It is you know, it really is.
“Can you hold here?” she dictates, drawing me in to participate in my own torment. I close my eyes, and use one of my hands to depress and gently pull down my eyelid while using my other hand to winch up the skin above the brow. With the eyebrow held taut she begins work to excavate my long-lost luscious brow. She has wound a piece of white cotton thread (it’s always white, I don’t know why) between her hands and her mouth. Holding it tight she pulls away lines of hair from above, below and between my brows. A thousand hairs are yanked without any ceremony from right above my eye, and tears start streaming down while I suppress a scream. Real women don’t scream when they are becoming woman-ified.
Sometimes, I wonder if men notice. Are you tuned in to the trouble that most of the women around you go to? The comedian George Carlin says: “Ladies, here’s how much men care about your eyebrows: Do you have two of them? Good, we’re done.”
I’m not going to go through this trauma without due recognition, however. I’ve trained my husband to notice when my eyes have gained their freedom from eyebrow overgrowth. If the compliment is not spontaneous, I stand directly in front of him in obvious anticipation.
But is it the male species that we do it for? I don’t think so. The shaped eyebrow confirms our eligibility into the “real woman” club, a small but effective signal that says: “I am a woman who cares about myself.”
If a woman doesn’t care about how she looks, then what kind of woman is she? I’d like to say I’m the kind of woman who hasn’t bought into the social pressure to conform to being what is considered a socially acceptable “real woman”.
But I have.
And after each torture session, I can’t help but admire my luscious curved brows and newly liberated sparkling eyes.
"Shelina Zahra Janmohamed is the author of Love in a Headscarf and writes a blog at spirit21.co.uk"
Sunday, 6 March 2011
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